Saturday, August 13th
In savoring a finite joy the very most one can expect is to enfeeble and destroy our taste, leaving the palate wrecked; for all the sweetness there may be I’ll never throw away my soul… – St. John of the Cross
Year: 2022
Friday, August 12th
…or if, as I have said, you are very careful about your prayer, you will soon find yourselves gradually reaching the summit of the mountain without knowing how. But how harsh it sounds to say that we must take pleasure in nothing, unless we also say what consolations and delights…
Thursday, August 11th
The fly that clings to honey hinders its flight, and the soul that allows itself attachment to spiritual sweetness hinders its own liberty and contemplation. – St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, August 10th
I invited the whole earth to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I invited the entire sea to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I called him, invited ungrateful man, to bless you, to serve you, to praise and to…
Tuesday, August 9th
Everything with which the soul occupies itself on the natural plane should be rooted out; thus it can be taught to know God, placing all its satisfaction in Him alone. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, August 8th
Hope creates an emptiness in the memory constraining it to occupy itself with something it does not yet possess. It teaches us to hope for everything from God and for nothing from ourselves or from other creatures; to hope for eternal happiness from Him and therefore to renounce every pleasure…
Sunday, August 7th
O Mary, anyone who looks at you is comforted in any anxiety or tribulation or pain, and is victorious over any temptation. Anyone who does not know something about God, let him have recourse to you, O Mary. – St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi, OCD
Saturday, August 6th
He should not go seeking after new things which can only satisfy the desires in a superficial manner (and even here cannot satisfy fully) while leaving the spirit weak and empty, without deep inner virtue. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, August 5th
Don’t be terrified by the new life that is opening up to you, for being a child of Mary, she will cover you with her mantle. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Thursday, August 4th
The lover looks not at the gifts, but turns himself to the Giver, above all goods. -St. Therese
Friday, August 12th
…or if, as I have said, you are very careful about your prayer, you will soon find yourselves gradually reaching the summit of the mountain without knowing how. But how harsh it sounds to say that we must take pleasure in nothing, unless we also say what consolations and delights…
Thursday, August 11th
The fly that clings to honey hinders its flight, and the soul that allows itself attachment to spiritual sweetness hinders its own liberty and contemplation. – St. John of the Cross
Wednesday, August 10th
I invited the whole earth to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I invited the entire sea to bless you, to serve you. Forever and always, never to end! I called him, invited ungrateful man, to bless you, to serve you, to praise and to…
Tuesday, August 9th
Everything with which the soul occupies itself on the natural plane should be rooted out; thus it can be taught to know God, placing all its satisfaction in Him alone. – St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)
Monday, August 8th
Hope creates an emptiness in the memory constraining it to occupy itself with something it does not yet possess. It teaches us to hope for everything from God and for nothing from ourselves or from other creatures; to hope for eternal happiness from Him and therefore to renounce every pleasure…
Sunday, August 7th
O Mary, anyone who looks at you is comforted in any anxiety or tribulation or pain, and is victorious over any temptation. Anyone who does not know something about God, let him have recourse to you, O Mary. – St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi, OCD
Saturday, August 6th
He should not go seeking after new things which can only satisfy the desires in a superficial manner (and even here cannot satisfy fully) while leaving the spirit weak and empty, without deep inner virtue. -St. John of the Cross
Friday, August 5th
Don’t be terrified by the new life that is opening up to you, for being a child of Mary, she will cover you with her mantle. -St. Teresa of the Andes
Thursday, August 4th
The lover looks not at the gifts, but turns himself to the Giver, above all goods. -St. Therese